Modern morals

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A NEIGHBOUR’S daughter is courting the driver of a national company’s van. When I take my dog out for a last walk, in semi-darkness, I see the driver taking out a petrol can and filling his girlfriend’s car. Should I suggest to the company that it checks the van’s petrol consumption?

Why not, assuming that you’re a private investigator and they’ve hired you to keep tabs on misdemeanours of their van drivers? Otherwise, your moral duty to prefer right over wrong stops this side of interfering in something that (a) might, for all you know, be totally innocent; and (b)